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Seems as though it’s been a while since we updated the various goings on of some former Tool touring mates, so here goes! Bong smoking pals Mastodon are currently recording their new album The Hunter, which is expected to be released later this year. it has some pretty awesome artwork for the cover: Expect a world-wife tour to follow. The ‘Don are rumoured to be playing Soundwave in 2012, which… Read More »Tool touring buddies update!
According to Blair, a very limited edition (only 100 copies) of The Melvins latest album The Bride Screamed Murder featuring artwork by Adam will go on sale here sometime tonight. No word on what time it will be, so I expect you guys will spam the site and bring it down soon! Good luck to potential buyers, limit is one per customer, and from memory the albums cost US$50 each… Read More »The Bride Screamed Adam
A bunch of small non-Tool updates for you all this morning. Firstly Blair advised us via Toolband that Tool tour mates Rajas will be playing a handful of shows in June: June 15th – Portland @ Rotture June 16th – Seattle @ The Comet June 18th – Vancouver B.C. @ Funky Winkerbeans June 23rd – Calgary, Sled Island Fest @ Royal Canadian Legion #1 June 24th – Edmonton @ The… Read More »Rajas, Puscifer, Yow, Saturn
A recent post on Toolband this morning highlights the new release from Lustmord Songs of Gods and Demons that is now available from his website. While Lustmord’s work is quite interesting, what’s even more interesting to Tool fans is this snippet: The CD includes "The Blasted Plain", the companion piece to the music Lustmord did for the VICARIOUS DVD menu. I don’t even remember the music/noise from the Vicarious DVD… Read More »Lustmord Songs of Gods and Demons
The Melvins announced recently that they will be visiting six towns in the USA, playing a two night residency in each town. According to the blurb: The upcoming performances will feature the same set list in each city with the first night kicking off with the band performing songs from Lysol and Egg Nog followed by a second set of music from Houdini. The second night in each mini-residency will… Read More »The Melvins schedule six town residency tour
News is pretty slow at the moment, and while Tool are in writing mode, i don’t expect there to be much coming out of their world in the next couple of months. Best we can hope for are a few more A Perfect Circle or Puscifer dates at this stage. However, there is some good news, last week The Melvins announced that they will be releasing Sugar Daddy, a live… Read More »The Melvins to release Live Album ‘Sugar Daddy’
In a post today Blair tells us that Danny is tonight’s guest at the Monday Night Jammmz at the Baked Potato. Sound cool for those of us in LA, but the highlighted bit below may be of more interest to most: DANNY will be performing double duty on this last day in February, first working on new musical arrangements with TOOL and then being the guest drummer at tonight’s MONDAY… Read More »Danny baking potatoes
As I’m sure most of you know by now, Christchurch in New Zealand suffered from a devastating earthquake yesterday afternoon, resulting in a great deal of pain and damage for it’s residents. The Melvins were in town having just played a series of gigs on the south island, and as the airport was closed were stuck in Christchurch last night unable to make it to their Wellington gig. Details on… Read More »Melvins Earthquake Update
A recent post by Blair on Toolband refers to an event called April Tool’s Day to be held at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. This even hosted by Alex Grey will feature a talk about Tool, as well as screenings of Vicarious and Parabola. It’ll also feature a set from a local Tool cover band Schism. Sounds like an interesting evening!
Buzz from the Melvins was recently interviewed by the AU Review, and the results are good: AU: My first question is, are you looking forward to Soundwave and do you like coming down to Australia? B: No, I hate everything about Soundwave and I hate everything about Australia. AU: That’s good. Glad to hear someone who’s honest. Most bands just suck up. B: No I’m kidding. I’m looking forward to… Read More »Buzz talks Aussie tour